Introducing Rabble Reads – Think Metacritic for Books! #rabblereads

Helping Hand for Rabble Reads

On Monday at 2pm EST I’ll be ‘TweetChatting‘ with Amy Holman Edelman, who is championing Rabble Reads. Her Kickstarter project is ongoing and it needs your help. Think Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritics for books, an accessible hub for everyone to see what bloggers, critics and the Goodreads audience think of both indie and traditionally published titles. Know how IMDB lets you see what the critics thought, versus the users’ combined metascore. Wouldn’t it be AMAZING to have that for books? I think so!

About Rabble Reads

Rabble will provide aggregated book reviews from trusted, verified sources for both indie and traditionally published titles.

“Rabble: a website that will aggregate trusted, verified reviews into consensus, like Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes do for movies. Rabble’s team, made up of zealous and intrepid book-lovers (and many of the same people who brought you IndieReader), will scour the publishing landscape, pull a sentence or two from each review (pre-vetted to insure its credibility, with a link to the complete review source) and come up with a consensus for a final Rabble score—to insure that you, the busy reader, don’t have to.

In addition to being able to see immediately where a book rates on the Rabble scale, the site will also be a brilliant place to explore. There will be lists, via the Rabble Listatron 300, that include the best to worst rated titles, author interviews, and much much, more. And for the first time anywhere, indie titles—those cool books that are being picked up weekly by the Big 5 publishers but are still mostly shunned by mainstream reviewers—will rub shoulders with traditionally published books, just like god intended.

Fact is, the publishing world is changing faster than you can say Random-Penguin-Schuster. Indie bookstores, those bastions of helpfulness which gleefully recommended the best new titles, are scarce. What’s needed, almost more than another season of Homeland (right NOW), is a great place to find out how your faves rate, and discover new authors and titles.

With your help, Rabble will be that resource.”

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How’s Rabble doing?

It’s not quite there but it’s definitely doable – we just HAVE to keep spreading the word. You can pledge anything from $1 up or – if you can’t pledge – why not share on Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest and help get the word out.